Interesting photo, Mark12,

Can anyone identify the stammkennzeichen (i.e. factory or unit codes) ??+HH of the Ju 52/3m? I don’t have my copy of War Prizes at hand, but is there any mention of a likely Ju 52 in it?

According to this site: http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/stammkennzeichen.html, two Ju 52/3ms were issued the codes CQ+HH and NA+HH respectively. However, I would presume these codes to be factory codes, and not those of operational units.

Regards,

Jan

Former Norwegian Navy Heinkel He 115s were used operationally by the RAF, both in Scotland and in Malta. The ones based in Malta were allegedly flown in false Luftwaffe colours, and used on a variety of clandestine ops.

A number of Fi 156s were used by the RAF as squadron hacks, from North Africa and onwards.

Incidentally, the South African Air Force operated captured Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52/3ms, in addition to the Ju 52/3ms that had been supplied to South African Airways before the war, and subsequently impressed by the SAAF.

Regards,

Jan

Incidentally, the EAA AirVenture 2006 will celebrate the Cessna 172s 50th birthday, albeit a year late. http://www.airventure.org/2006/news/060214_cessna.html

Remarkably, the first production Cessna 172, N5000A c/n 28000, is alive and well at Gunter, TX.

Regards,

Jan

Jagan,

A short piece on the Iranian Hurricanes can be found here: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/hurri_iran.html

The two-seat conversion seems interesting, IIRC there was a photo or two of it in a recent issue of Flypast. One who might know more about the Iranian Hurricanes is Tom Cooper of http://www.acig.org.

As for any remaining Hurricanes in Iran, not likely, but there is an aviation museum at the Tehran Aerospace Exhibition Center at Mehrabad airport. Photos of their aircraft exhibits, including a Douglas A-26 Invader and a DHC-2 Beaver, can be found on http://www.airliners.net.

Regards,

Jan

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Two Hurricane Mk. IVs, KZ191 and KZ321, were recovered from a scrapyard in Israel during the late 1970s or early 1980s. There’s brief mention of this in the AE 6 sqdn feature.

TT, I for one would be very surprised if the Israeli AF operated any Hurricanes. Also, I’ve never seen any reference to Hurricanes in Ecuador. CW has it that they received P-47D Thunderbolts post-war, which were replaced by Meteor FR.9s. The only Latin-American Hurricane connection that I’m aware of, is that at least one Hurricane was sold to Argentina around 1946/47ish.

Regards,

Jan

No photos, but DH 82A Tiger Moths were featured (and pranged) in ‘The Great Waldo Pepper’ (1975), standing in for Curtiss JN-4 Jennies.

Regards,

Jan

The aircraft featured in ‘The Last Flight of Noa’s Ark’ was a Boeing B-29.

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Jan